Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Andrews
Request for Comments: 6303 ISC
BCP: 163 July 2011
Category: Best Current Practice
ISSN: 2070-1721
Locally Served DNS Zones
Abstract
Experience with the Domain Name System (DNS) has shown that there are
a number of DNS zones that all iterative resolvers and recursive
nameservers should automatically serve, unless configured otherwise.
RFC 4193 specifies that this should occur for D.F.IP6.ARPA. This
document extends the practice to cover the IN-ADDR.ARPA zones for RFC
1918 address space and other well-known zones with similar
characteristics.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. Reserved Words .............................................3
2. Effects on Sites Using RFC 1918 Addresses .......................3
3. Changes to Iterative Resolver Behaviour .........................4
4. Lists Of Zones Covered ..........................................5
4.1. RFC 1918 Zones .............................................5
4.2. RFC 5735 and RFC 5737 Zones ................................5
4.3. Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses ...............................6
4.4. IPv6 Locally Assigned Local Addresses ......................6
4.5. IPv6 Link-Local Addresses ..................................7
4.6. IPv6 Example Prefix ........................................7
5. Zones That Are Out of Scope .....................................7
6. IANA Considerations .............................................8
7. Security Considerations .........................................8
8. Acknowledgements ................................................9
9. References ......................................................9
9.1. Normative References .......................................9
9.2. Informative References ....................................10
1. Introduction
Experience with the Domain Name System (DNS, [RFC1034] and [RFC1035])
has shown that there are a number of DNS zones that all iterative
resolvers and recursive nameservers SHOULD automatically serve,
unless intentionally configured otherwise. These zones include, but
are not limited to, the IN-ADDR.ARPA zones for the address space
allocated by [RFC1918] and the IP6.ARPA zones for locally assigned
unique local IPv6 addresses defined in [RFC4193].
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